This is a full time, on-site, salaried Lead iOS Engineer position located in San Francisco, CA paying $150,000-$180,000 a year depending on experience + benefits + stock + relo if required. No telecommuting allowed. US Citizens or Green Card holders only please. Full job/client details shared with qualified applicants. All submitted resumes will be held in the strictest of confidence and will not be shared with ANYONE without your written consent.

Responsibilities: * Demonstrate technical leadership to aggressively drive the engineering effort in an Agile rapid development shop, including effective written and verbal communication * Design and implement cutting edge iOS mobile apps, and potentially extending to the Android, and Windows Phone platforms * Own and implement the iOS mobile client for consumer facing mobile services * Work closely with backend engineers to understand the server challenges, and assist in defining scalable APIs for the mobile client * Work closely with Product Management to ensure an effective Agile process with incremental feature delivery and quick turnaround of improvements based on user feedback * Work closely with graphic designers and incorporate current UX design trends to deliver fresh and cutting edge consumer user interfaces * Stay on top of evolving mobile technologies and companies in areas like portability toolkits, SDKs, and web technologies such as JSON, CSS, Javascript and HTML 5

Required Skills / Experience: * 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including significant experience with PHP, Java, Objective C, CSS and HTML. * 3+ years of iOS mobile development with Objective C * Demonstrated ability to design and build dynamic multi-threaded mobile apps * Experience as a member of an Agile development team * Expert-level coding experience with Objective C, with full command of the iOS device API * Expert-level understanding of networking protocols, in particular HTTP * Experience with Web related technologies like Javascript, HTML 4/5, AJAX, JSON * Experience with messaging related technologies like SMS, MMS, XMPP, SMTP * Experience with embedded local storage solutions such as SQLite * Expert understanding of image manipulation and animation including techniques like alpha blending * Experience with integrating with third party APIs including social networks and payment/billing systems * Experience publishing to Apple App Store, Google Play, and Amazon App Store